Am Dienstag, 10. April 2012, 09.13:41 schrieb Alan Boudreault: > Hi all, > > As you might know, UbuntuGIS is following DebianGIS development to build > its packages. Hardy has already 4 years now and building packages for > this distribution is getting more and more work. Everytime, we have to > revert a lot of changes from the debianGIS packages since everything is > deprecated in hardy. As example we have to > > - revert dependency versions > - revert policy update > - modify the rule file since it was using a too recent debhelper > - change the compatibility file > - remove various support in the build process since their dependencies > are not available in hardy > - trying to build and get failure! > - and so on... > > My proposal is to drop the hardy support to allow us to focus on recent > ubuntu releases. The state of the repository will stay as it is now. > However, we will still provide support for *security fixes*.
+1 Pirmin -- Pirmin Kalberer Sourcepole - Linux & Open Source Solutions http://www.sourcepole.com _______________________________________________ UbuntuGIS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki
